2 Men Charged With Selling Porn

July 12, 1985

Detectives seized 2,000 allegedly pornographic books and arrested two employees in a raid Thursday at the Capitol News Agency Co., a distributing warehouse at 4508 W. Montrose Ave. Arrested were Derreck Fadden, 23, of 2500 Mark Thomas Lane, Hanover Park, and Joseph A. Smith, 33, of 9033 S. Laflin St., said Lt. George Bicek of the vice control division. Fadden was charged with selling obscene books to an undercover policeman and Smith was charged with selling an obscene videotape to an undercover state police agent. The undercover officers had visited the company before the raid, Bicek said.